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901.
by dirtyid 4y ago
>average of just between 13 cents and 52 cents per hour across the country For reference, even Uyghur coerced labour propaganda allegations cite salary above 40th percentile of PRC national income - typically subtantially higher that 600
902.
by dirtyid 4y ago
I'm point out CCP strategy on poverty alleviation and sinicization to integrate restive regions and meet development/security goals. Not interested in interrogating morality debates, right/wrong reserved for whether it works
903.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Pay as much attention as you want, kindness has nothing to do with Uyghurs being 0.2% of population and not the solution to PRC labour probems.
904.
by dirtyid 4y ago
As a perrenial night owl, I always wish there was parallel social systems from schools to businesses to accomdate people who thrive at night. But enabling 8 hours of sleep after midnight bedtime is a start.
905.
by dirtyid 4y ago
>China needs more quality than quantity. Yeah entire MIC 2025 move up value chain drama that turned into tech war with US. TW had decades of head start over PRC serious semi efforts and TBH if it wasn't for US sanctions on Fujin Jin
906.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Extrapolate world bank data $10,916 (from 2020) @4-5% growth and PRC will cross recently revised WB upper income of $12,696 within a few years. Official CCP stats is $12,551 for 2021, which will put PRC in upper income with 2% growth this y
907.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Singapore aside, they all did it under authoritarian governance with massive US/western support at peak of US hegemony as essential vassals. They played great on easy mode. VS PRC which was sanctioned/contained by west, India less
908.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Self inflicted moderate demographics problems to delay a massive one. Without family planning, PRC would be at 1.7B people. Currently at 1.4B more than 600M are, to be blunt, excess people - underedcuated cohorts that subsists in informal e
909.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Even conservative GDP and growth estimates will put PRC in high income within a few years. Official 2021 per capita figures is $100 away, so theoretically reachable at end of year even with stymied covid growth projections. That said middle
910.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Except it tells nothing. Nine dash predates UNCLOS that does not determine sovereignty, and the PCA "rule-based" ad-hoc kangaroo court decision is not recognized by UN, nevermind PRC is not bound by optional UNCLOS arbituational c
911.
by dirtyid 4y ago
> In congressional testimony, defense officials explained that "the triangular appearance is a result of light passing through the night vision goggles, and then being recorded by an SLR camera." Can someone explain physics beh
912.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Somewhat related, anyway for Whatsapp gDrive backups to be restored to another account / phone#? I'm less afraid of Whatsapp ban since it's trival though still annoying to circumvent.
913.
by dirtyid 4y ago
That's certainly a very American perspective. Ongoing PRC claims has been consistent since they were inherited from ROC days. They even fought war in SCS with NVietnam when their military was poverty tier. The reality is PRC rise in re
914.
by dirtyid 4y ago
>they can go back to China Why? PRC nationalist paid ~50K for the right to play campus idpol. US free to reduce enrollment of PRC students or academic exchanges. They're already shutting down Confucius Institutes. But if US wants to
915.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Facts are majority of poor country own more to west cumulative and have greater strategic support. Including near unanimous ME who depends on US security architecture. It costs nothing to defect from PRC but they still CHOOSE to endorse ant
916.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Deployed within 2 minutes of host of PRC ordnance. This is the kind of expensive platforms US doesn't want TW to pursue because it's a money sink relative to insurgent porcupine capabilties - to the point of vetoing TW military pu
917.
by dirtyid 4y ago
As a deal hunter, I also think of "reminder you got a good deal per use". Nice dopamine hit using an item and being reminded "what a steal". I'm a cheap date.
918.
by dirtyid 4y ago
>"we were crucified in a courtroom for crimes that we did not commit" They don't mean for crimes they personally did not commit, but alleged "genocide" that plurality of UN members who has formal position on the
919.
by dirtyid 4y ago
It's a lot simpler than that. PRC's XJ security architecture is publically about counter terrorism and deradicalization through forced reeducation (with mass interment) and poverty alleviation. While forced sterilzation for women
920.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Sadly, most countries don't have good Mexican food. Pet theory is easy for undocumented/labour Mexicans to sneak into US who absorbs 98% of the diasphora. Rest of world has dearth of Mexicans who opens restaurants because that&#x2
921.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Nationalism, security, economics (like this tech war) are all bundled into the TW dilemma. There are actions short of full scale invasion, like blockade, quarantine or whatever greyzone steps short of full blown invasion with associated cal
922.
by dirtyid 4y ago
> not serious > is moving closer to being reality This article has less to do with TW soverignty but US/PRC tech war. Chen explicitly already presumes rebellious TW to be Chinese territory and TSMC to be a Chinese company under h
923.
by dirtyid 4y ago
It's been internet meme for few years when TSMC node lead was evident, and recently someone at US Army War College picked up on concept and wrote a paper suggesting TW should blow up their own fabs to deter PRC invasion when PRC had ey
924.
by dirtyid 4y ago
"Smart" is pushing it, more like loud/visible because netizens first picked up that critical Chinese voices that get amplified the most in western media bubble are prodminantly Chinese women which ties into the entire battle
925.
by dirtyid 4y ago
And generally PRC citizens don't believe they're living under totalitarianism either. Most drank the koolaid that CCP is whole process democracy that kind of works, and democratic perception index or other surveys consistently rei
926.
by dirtyid 4y ago
>they dont have democracy Whatever system PRC is, rigourous surveys have consistently shown they overwhelmingly approve of it. And according to democracy perception index, significantly more Chinese view their system as democratic and de
927.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Not particularly, CCTV7 documentary on Type 99A tank quoted the significant numbers a couple years ago.
928.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Not really new info, "leak" verifies stats posted on PRC military programming on CCTV a couple years ago. Lots of PRC military content out there for open source intel to collect, but not many foreign analyst with language skills t
929.
by dirtyid 4y ago
>additional few months Xiaomi filter processing Canadian air in a semi high traffic area after 2 years looks better than my Asian country filter after 6 months.
930.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Great job. Lots of lifting tracking apps out there, but kind of wonder legality around naming apps around popular systems. Not sure if Wendler has trade mark on 531 or even official app. I think there was some drama over Sheiko app when it

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